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“The price we pay for clothes is low,

The price they pay in Bangladesh is high.”
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Would you support a boycott of cheap clothes from Bangladesh?
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+ pro - con
- It would save the workers - The workers will lose their
from suffering jobs
- Improvement for the o Even more suffering
environment in
- Improvement for the Bangladesh /
environment unemployment
- Would lead to better  Clothes would
working conditions become more
maybe expensive
- Would start buying  Economic problems
more sustainable for
fashion Bangladesh
- Raise awareness Companies might be
people would notice unwilling to change
the problem anything/ how do we
- We would help our know we got the
local industry correct information
Something has to be -
done to improve the
bad situation

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Would you support a boycott of cheap clothes from Bangladesh?

Useful phrases to explain your opinion effectively:

“In my opinion…” “I’m convinced that…”

“From my perspective…” “It’s clear to me that…”
“I believe that…” “I’d like to point out that…”
“As I see it…” “As far as I’m concerned…”
“In my view…” “I’m of the opinion that…”
“It seems to me that…”
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In my opinion, such boycott wouldn’t really contribute to a significant change
with the problems referring to clothing production.
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“Talk with your partner about the influence of the internet and your own
learning in general.”
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Global learning

additional word help: l. 17 leaps and bounds= drastically

Tasks
1. Define what a MOOC is.

A MOOC is a modern massive open online course movement.

2. Examine the positive and negative effects of online courses on developing countries.
Negative effects Positive effects
- They don’t build local capacity for - High quality education available worldwide
education, research or knowledge creation  Chance to enhance local education
 Suitable for many cultures and countries
in the education sector
 Third world people get access to first
 Does not help building up local education
world education
systems
 Often free course adapted to local context
 Public systems get no chance to improve
 More people can get a higher education
their offers
 Whole countries might rely on these MOOc -
courses completely
 Improvement might only be a short term
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improvment
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“Global learning – a blessing or curse for you personally?”

Explain will global learning – in the long term- help closing the gap between the
first world and the developing world.